3 Travel Subscription Boxes to Try Now

Brooke Porter Katz

November 17, 2014

Even if you can’t travel all the time, the world can come to you—thanks to new subscription services that package items from places near and far into tidy, curated boxes. Try the World assembles locally made food items: chestnut spread in the Paris box, say, or dried seaweed in the Tokyo edition. Hazel Lane is a cheerleader for American crafts, such as art prints from Brooklyn or dip-dye napkins from Austin, Texas. And the collections by A Box From—so far, Seoul and Tehran, Iran—include what founder Elin Aram calls “silly small stuff.” Because nothing says Korean kitsch like a hamburger-shaped notepad.

Brooke Porter Katz is an Associate Editor at Travel + Leisure. Follow her on Twitter at @brookeporter1.